ALISON KENNON Fibre Artist · Breathworker. Living and working on Gundungarra Country,

Southern Highlands, NSW

I grew up close to the land, foraging, noticing, learning to read what the more-than-human world was saying. That early attunement has never left me. It lives in my body, in my practice, and in the work I make.

I am a fibre artist and breathworker living on Gundungurra Country in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. I work with materials that carry the specific character of this place and this season.

My sculptural work traces what I think of as a shared language: the marks on the body and the marks on the earth. Scars, roots, tracks, veins, waterways. Not wounds to be hidden, but testimony to be honoured.

Over time, I have come to understand that the way we create is often the way we move through life. The places where we contract, overthink, hesitate, or protect ourselves can also shape the way we express, create, and relate to the world around us.

Making, for me, has become a form of listening.

When the hands are fully occupied with something that cannot be rushed, something else becomes possible — a quality of attention that feels less like creating and more like receiving. The work that emerges from that state carries it. It holds what came through in the making.

Again and again, I have found that grief and beauty are not opposites.

The breathwork practice I hold alongside the making has never felt separate from it. Both are forms of return. One through the hands, one through the breath. Different doorways back to the body, back to belonging, back to creative flow, back to the luminous thread that runs through every living thing.

Through conscious connected breathwork, we begin to gently soften the patterns of survival, self judgement, emotional suppression, and disconnection that keep us separated from ourselves. The breath brings awareness to what has been held quietly beneath the surface, creating space for authenticity, intuition, and aliveness to emerge.

Our bodies carry knowledge the mind has forgotten. We are born into this world with a beautiful spirit, and no matter what life brings, that spirit remains.

My work is an invitation back to that knowing.

When we feel safe enough to truly inhabit ourselves, something begins to shift. We become more connected to our inner world, our creativity, our truth, and our capacity to live and express authentically.

Through breathwork, my awareness of that sense of belonging is amplified — not through the mind, but through the body. Conscious breath clears what words alone cannot reach. It restores what disconnection has quietly taken. It brings us back to ourselves, back to each other, and back to the Earth.

For ultimately, it is the interconnectedness of all living things that sustains life.

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I would like to share gratitude for and acknowledgement of the Gundungarra people, the original and ongoing custodians and keepers of this land on which I live, work and play. I pay respect to tribal elders past, present and emerging, and I honour their deep spiritual connection to the land, water, skies and community.